Tanya Calamoneri

Tanya Calamoneri works in the areas of contemporary dance, Japanese Butoh, and physical theater.  She started choreographing her own work in 1997, via her collective with Allen Willner and Krista DeNio, violent dwarf.  Based in San Francisco from 1996-2003, she was ED of Dancers’ Group, and Co-Director of both 848 Community Space and Temescal Arts Center, and was a founding faculty member of the Experimental Performance Institute at New College of CA. She attended Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research from 1996-7 (directed by Martha Eddy and Carol Swann), danced for and was company manager to Kim Epifano/Epiphany Productions (98-00), and danced for Jess Curtis (99), among other contemporary choreographers.  She was a member of the Butoh-based company inkBoat from 2000-2003, touring to Germany and within the Western U.S., working as a performer, teacher, and administrative manager with artistic director Shinichi Momo Koga.  Since 2000, she has studied Butoh intensively under Minako Seki, Ko Murobushi, Carlotta Ikeda, Shinichi Koga, Yuko Kaseki, Takuya Muramatsu of Dairakurakan, Su-En, and others. Tanya moved to New York in 2003, completed her MA from NYU’s Gallatin School, for which she wrote a curriculum to teach Butoh dance in American higher education, and helped found the live/work rehearsal and performance space Studio 111 in Brooklyn. From 2005-2007 she was a co-director of the arts service organization, The Field, in New York City. Tanya is an Artistic Director/Performer in Sogono Company.